Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening PDF files in Draw

Hi Derek,

On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 22:22 -0400, R. Derek Pattison wrote: 

> Hi Jorge,
>
> Basically I want to do some minor editing of the pictures in the PDF. Delete some pages, move 
> some from one document to another, delete parts of pages. The problem is that LibreOffice is 
> trying to interpret the text in the images as text and that makes it unreadable. I just want to 
> edit them as images.
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
>
> On Aug 13, 2011, at 10:14 PM, jorge wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> >     Excuse me, but it is important to know what do you need to do with PDF
> > file: Edit, copy something...? It is because you would use other
> > programs specialized for that. OCR program is used for images txt
> > documents for example. If your PDF document haven't image txt datas you
> > don't need OCR program to access the PDF document.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jorge Rodríguez
> > _____________
> >
> >
> > El sáb, 13-08-2011 a las 18:21 -0400, R. Derek Pattison escribió:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Is there a way to open a PDF file in Draw, or another LibreOffice program, without having the 
> > > program use OCR? I have some PDF files that are basically just pictures of book pages and when 
> > > LibreOffice tries to parse the mediocrely-scanned text it becomes unreadable.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help!
> > > Derek
> >
> > -- 
> > Atentamente,
> >
> > Jorge Rodríguez
> >
> >
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Here is a link to an extension to open PDF files in LO:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/pdfimport

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